Editorials

Editorial: Make City Hall accountable

October 17, 2019

If citizens keep passing tax increases, they lose all chance for reform. That’s what happened when the Oklahoma Legislature voted in a teacher pay hike in 2018. Teachers rightly got more money but out-of-control administrators were not constrained one bit by new legislation. That’s exactly what will happen if Tulsa voters approve a new $639,000,000.00…

Editorial: Give women and babies a choice

October 17, 2019

An unexpected pregnancy can be an emotional rollercoaster for some women. In a vulnerable moment, pregnant women can be coerced into going to an abortion clinic to destroy their unborn child. Boyfriends, parents, employers and even husbands force them to make a decision that will take a life and damage their life forever. More and…

Editorial: Democrat’s smear campaign

October 17, 2019

President Trump has done nothing to justify impeachment. He is guilty of no “high crimes or misdemeanors.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has succumbed to the Trump haters and opened an “impeachment inquiry.” Her purpose of launching an “inquiry” rather than an impeachment is twofold. First, Pelosi is trying to protect Democrats in the House from…

Editorial: Going topless in Tulsa?

October 10, 2019

Unelected judges are legislating from the bench and dropping the moral standards in America. The latest nonsensical action was for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver that ruled that overturned a Fort Collins law that prohibited women age 10 and older from the public exposure of breasts. A judge ruled the law was…

Editorial: Government action and fat kids

October 10, 2019

The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) Board of Directors is battling obesity in Oklahoma. What? TSET has hundreds of millions of dollars collected from tobacco companies in a settlement with the State of Oklahoma. That over-funded trust is supposed to discourage tobacco use and help victims with medical treatment. But the board passed a resolution…

Editorial: Fox is not that conservative

October 10, 2019

Fox News is not a truly conservative media outlet. It looks like one because of a handful hosts, including Shawn Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham and a few others. They are genuine conservatives and they self-identify as commentators, not reporters. But Fox has some very liberal personalities and unfortunately, they tag themselves as “newsmen”…

Editorial: Change in judicial directions

October 3, 2019

If you think that the Oklahoma Supreme Court is unbiased and non-political, you are kidding yourself. Even though many decisions are based on a reasonable view of the law, this court has a track record of twisting their big decisions according to a liberal ideology. The justices, most of whom were appointed by liberal Democrat…

Editorial: Morality and Oklahoma health

October 3, 2019

A report card is in for the health by The United Health Foundation on the health of women, infants and children across the nation and in Oklahoma. The report shows that child mortality and teen suicide rates have risen sharply since 2016 but there has been a drop in the rate of teen births. Here’s…

Editorial: Democrat to confiscate autos

October 3, 2019

How does Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang propose to save the planet? By taking away your automobile. Yang said the United States may have to eliminate private car ownership to combat climate change. At a MSNBC climate forum at Georgetown University (where else?) on September 19, Yang said private car ownership as “really inefficient and…

Editorial: The law should be color blind

September 26, 2019

Tulsa city councilors like to worship at the altar of political correctness. The latest cause is an examination of the 2018 and 2018 “Equality Indicator” reports. According to these studies in 2018, black people were arrested twice as often as white people. And black people were arrested more often than Native Americans. Asians had the…